Principal's Newsletter, Week 8, Term 2, 2016

posted Jun 17, 2016, 4:36 PM by Ms. Connors

Principal’s Report

Congratulations to
our zone cross country students who achieved fabulous success on Wednesday. It
was wonderful to hear of Jessica Guo’s (11) win and also the success of our 17
year old boys who will run at the Regional Final. Congratulations to all our
other competitors for their wonderful participation on the day.

Our Year 12
debating team has been moving forward successfully – combining debating with
the completion of their exams. Well done.

Yesterday the SRC
ran another successful ASPIRE day for our Year 7 students. This amazing day has
been designed and implemented by our SRC students. Year 10 and Year 9 students
lead this event. Through a series of games, activities and reflections students
gain insight into the meaning of our school values:

Acceptance Service Participation Integrity Respect Endeavour

Special thank you
to Julia Tran and Aniruddh Chennapragada of Year 10 for their leadership
of this special day. Thank you
to Ms St Louis who guides our SRC and ensured the day was a wonderful success.

Thank you both to
our staff and to parents of Year 7 for attending the Year 7 parent teacher
night. These nights are so important to ensuring a successful learning
partnership between teachers, parents and students.

Thank you to Ms
Fernandez and Mr Wong for organising a fabulous year meeting for year 9.

Congratulations to Darshana Kannan (11)
who competed in the U17 Netball Championship at Newcastle during the long
weekend playing 17 games over the three days. Darshana has been
playing State Age Championship since she was 11 years old.

Next Wednesday,
Year 12 will be introduced to a very special award that they are eligible to
apply for. This award is a joint award between the University of Sydney and
JRAHS and recognises a male and female student’s academic success, leadership,
sportsmanship and service to the community. Brendan Ma, one of the 2015 Award’s
Recipient, will return to share his journey at Sydney University